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U-571 movie storyline. In the midst of World War II, the battle below the seas rages. The Nazis have the upper edge as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. That is, until a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, and the Allies realize this is their chance to seize the ‘enigma coding machine’. But masquerading as Nazis and taking over the U-boat is the smallest of their problems. The action really begins when they get stranded on the U-boat.
U-571 is a 2000 French-American war film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Thomas Kretschmann, Jon Bon Jovi, Jack Noseworthy, Will Estes and Tom Guiry. In the film, a World War II German submarine is boarded in 1942 by disguised United States Navy submariners seeking to capture her Enigma cipher machine.
The film was financially successful and generally well-received by critics, and won an Academy Award for sound editing. The fictitious plot attracted substantial criticism; in reality, it was British personnel from HMS Bulldog who first captured a naval Enigma machine (from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941), months before the United States had even entered the war. The anger over the inaccuracies even reached the British Parliament, where Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that the film was an “affront” to British sailors. The film was also criticized for portraying German U-boat crews in a negative light.
U-571 (2000)
Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, Jake Weber, Erik Palladino, Matthew Settle, David Keith, Erik Palladino, Thomas Kretschmann
Screenplay by: Jonathan Mostow, Sam Montgomery, David Ayer
Production Design by: William Ladd Skinner, Götz Weidner
Cinematography by: Oliver Wood
Film Editing by: Wayne Wahrman
Costume Design by: April Ferry
Set Decoration by: Robert Gould, Cynthia Sleiter
Art Direction by: Maria-Teresa Barbasso, Marco Trentini, Robert Woodruff
Music by: Richard Marvin
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for war violence.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: April 21, 2000
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